merica and americans Author:john steinbeck Unsparingly, though with humor, affection, and his own matchless vein of anecdotes, John Steinbeck describes America as he sees it: with its natural wealth, its moral and political shortcomings: with a gallery of American types---heroes, eccentrics, Indians, teen-agers,misguided parents, old people: with the paradoxes of its history and the prom... more »ise of its future.« less